narration

English

Etymology

From Middle French narration, from Old French narracion, from Latin narrātiō.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /nəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, [nəˈɹeɪ.ʃn̩]

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌnæɹˈeɪ.ʃən/, [ˌnæɹˈeɪ.ʃn̩], /nɛɹˈeɪ.ʃən/, [nɛɹˈeɪ.ʃn̩]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /nəˈɹæɪ.ʃən/, [nəˈɹæɪ.ʃn̩]
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

narration (countable and uncountable, plural narrations)

1. The act of recounting or relating in order the particulars of some action, occurrence, or affair; a narrating.
2. That which is narrated or recounted; an orderly recital of the details and particulars of some transaction or event, or of a series of transactions or events; a story or narrative.
3. (rhetoric) That part of an oration in which the speaker makes his or her statement of facts.

Derived terms

• oblique narration

Related terms

• narrate
• narrative
• narrator

Descendants

• → Japanese: ナレーション (narēshon)
• → Korean: 내레이션 (naereisyeon)

Translations

act of recounting or relating

• Arabic: حِكَايَة f (ḥikāya)
• Belarusian: апавяда́нне n (apavjadánnje)
• Bengali: বয়ান (bn) (boẏan), রেওয়ায়ৎ (bn) (reōẇaẏot)
• Bulgarian: разка́зване (bg) n (razkázvane), описа́ние (bg) n (opisánie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 講述／讲述 (zh) (jiǎngshù), 敘述／叙述 (zh) (xùshù)

• Esperanto: rakonto (eo)
• Finnish: kertomus (fi), kuvaus (fi)
• French: narration (fr) f
• Galician: narración (gl) f
• German: Erzählung (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: διήγησις f (diḗgēsis), ἀφήγησις f (aphḗgēsis)

• Ido: naraco (io)
• Irish: ríomh m, reacaireacht f
• Japanese: ナレーション (ja) (narēshon), 叙述 (ja) (じょじゅつ, jojutsu)
• Javanese: narasi
• Korean: 서술(敍述) (ko) (seosul), 내레이션 (naereisyeon), 이야기하기 (iyagihagi)
• Latvian: stāstīšana f, stāstījums m
• Northern Sami: muitalus
• Old Norse: frásǫgn f
• Portuguese: narração (pt) f
• Russian: повествова́ние (ru) n (povestvovánije), изложе́ние (ru) n (izložénije), расска́з (ru) m (rasskáz)
• Sanskrit: कथन (sa) n (kathana)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: припове́да̄ње n, приповије́да̄ње n

  Roman: pripovédānje (sh) n, pripovijédānje n

• Spanish: narración (es) f
• Thai: การเล่าเรื่อง
• Ukrainian: оповіда́ння n (opovidánnja), розповіда́ння n (rozpovidánnja)

orderly recital of the particulars of a transaction or event

• Arabic: حِكَايَة f (ḥikāya)
• Belarusian: апавяда́нне n (apavjadánnje)
• Bengali: বয়ান (bn) (boẏan)
• Bulgarian: ра́зказ (bg) m (rázkaz)
• Finnish: kerronta (fi) (orderly recital of a story)
• German: Erzählung (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: διήγησις f (diḗgēsis)

• Irish: reacaireacht f
• Korean: 이야기 (ko) (iyagi), 소설(小說) (ko) (soseol)
• Latvian: stāstījums m, stāsts (lv) m
• Polish: narracja (pl) f, opowiadanie (pl) n, opowieść (pl) f
• Portuguese: narração (pt) f
• Russian: расска́з (ru) m (rasskáz)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: при̏пове̄тка f, при̏повије̄тка f, при̏пове̄ст f, при̏повије̄ст f

  Roman: prȉpovētka (sh) f, prȉpovijētka (sh) f, prȉpovēst (sh) f, prȉpovijēst (sh) f

• Ukrainian: оповіда́ння n (opovidánnja)

part of an oration

• Irish: reacaireacht f
• Russian: ди́кторский текст m (díktorskij tekst)

See also

• storytelling

References

• “narration”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• atranorin

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin narrātiōnem. By surface analysis, narrer +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na.ʁa.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

narration f (plural narrations)

1. narration (account; story)
2. narration (literary device)
3. (rhetoric) narration

Derived terms

• narratologie

Related terms

• narrateur

Further reading

• “narration”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle French

Etymology

Latin narrātiō.

Noun

narration f (plural narrations)

1. narration (account; story)